Todd Mason mentioned Mike Shayne and some earlier mystery
digests. I did not mention Mike Shayne because I had
commented on it at length in the past. The archives will have
the earlier posts including several of great interest by
James Reasoner. An expansion of my memories of "Mike Shayne
Mystery Magazine" can still be found on Kevin Smith's
Thrilling Detective website.
As Todd noted the Shayne digest was a market for several
people on this list.
As I recently gathered stories by Lawrence Treat, I was
amused to find Treat's name on the cover of the April 1979
issue of MSMM but no story by Treat inside. I did have a
story in that issue as did Reasoner. The lead non-Mike Shayne
story was by Joe Lansdale. I was disappointed that I did not
share an issue with Mr. Treat until I looked at the May 1979
issue of MSMM. The Treat story appeared in that issue as did
another story of mine. Steve Mertz, whose email address I
have misplaced, also had a story in the May issue.
As for the other digests, I have scattered issues of most of
them. I do have all three issues of "Ed McBain's Mystery
Book" from 1960-61 and they are very good featuring stories
by Richard Prather, Ross Macdonald, Fred Brown, among others.
Evan Hunter/McBain was the editor and Pocket Books the
publisher. When Hunter/McBain signed my copy of the first
issue, he expressed pride in the magazine.
He had a very different view of a later publication: "Ed
McBaines 87th Precinct Mystery Magazine." That is not my
typo. The first issue misspelled McBain's name in the title
and on the contents page of the first issue dated April 1975.
The name was correctly spelled on the three issues that
followed.
Richard Moore
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